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‘.» Sewers,’* Watmough complained,

BY NIXON BAKER
The public squabbling between Kitimat an

Terrace was interesting for a short period of

time, but surely the fun is over anditis becoming
an embarrassment and a nuisance.

lam assured that the situation is not as bad in
private discussions as it appears in public but
that is little consolation, since it is the public
pronouncements which the public hear.

At Saturday’s regional district council meeting
a reques! was received from the ministry of
economic development for -nformation con.
cerning the Kitimat-Stikine regional district.

Apparently the ministry had requested
Chambers of Commerce fo supply certain in-
formation, which the Terrace chamber had not

lone.

-, Dlrector Vic Jolliffe asked that the regional

district supply ail the information requested.
Mayor George Thom of Kitimat ([umped in

quickly to add, ‘‘great, maybe we should all get

the regional district to do our work, which is

’ what Terrace wants.”

Jolliffe noted that the request had nof been
sent to the District of Terrace but to the
Chamber of Commerce and if the ministry
wanted to do business with Chambers of Com-
merce rather than elected bodies he was not
responsible for answering any inquiries.

Thom pointed out that Kitimat was able to

respond without help from the regional district.

To conclude the discussion, after severa! other
barbs were exchanged, planner Peter Campbell
explained that this particular request was ad-

‘dressed to him as regional planner and all he

needed was a simple motion to provide the

‘” requested information. The motion was even-

tually passed,
' Later in the meeting Director Les Watmough
of Thornhill comptained about a press release
from the provincial government announcing the
approval of a sewage system somewhere in the
lower maintand.

“They certainly don’t publicize the fact that
they turned down Thornhiil’s request for

Jolliffe suggested that if the director wanted

publicity all he had to do was contact local media

and he would get it.

“You have to work at it,” Jolliffe sald.
_ “Imagine Terrace telling someone else to get
off their ass and do something,’’ Mayor Thom
inter|ected.

Cute eh?

if it wasn't for Banyay keeping a firm control
on the meeting this type of argument could goon
all day.
_ Alright Mayor Thom, you made your point
regarding the health centre, the provincial
government has given a flat unéquivical ‘No’ to
yoUr suggestion, so'let’s forget if and'geton with,
business.

‘Speaking of regianal cauncil—why ‘is it that
politicians at any level expect the news media to
be mind readers, which is what they must expect
considering the fact that they do not supply
copies of committee reports to the press.
_ At one point on Saturday Director Alice Chen-
Wing asked acting chairman Frank Armitage
‘about the rental of a car for reglonal district use.
Armitage replied that the regional council was.
renting a Lincoln Continental with plush purple.
‘seats. Funny? Maybe, except that since the
‘pressdid not have coples of the committee report
which recorded the rental of a more reasonable
vehicle; it would have been perfectly legitimate

had ## been reported that regional council was

renting a Lincoln.
‘Mad this report been carried. great crys of

. (anguish would have been heard from regional

‘councillors. ;
Political bodies in this area have been spoiled’

badly with a plethora of news coverage and they.

have apparently grown accustomed to having

_ the reporters make sure that the politicians do

not make themselves look like foals in the media..
This appiles not only to regional council but ta
other bodies, such as Terrace council. .
Of course, the easy way out is to do what the
school board does, hold your meetings at exactly
the same filme as council so that many media
people have to choose which meeting to cover.
This generally results in the school board being
‘able to operate without the pressure of having
‘the reporters present.
| This fact may explain why there is so little
interest in the up-coming schoo! board election;
a situation which | presume is perfectly fine with
those people who are Incumbents.

COURT NEWS

after he was charged with
driving with a blood-alechol.
level over ,08. Scott was,
charged after a single
vehicle accident Cct.5 near’
the Terrace bus depot. His
driver's licence was
automatically suspended,

Siegrid Frank was fined
$50 in Terrace provincial
court Monday and placed on
probation for one year after
she was charged with
‘driving with a blood-alcohol
level over .08.

Crown counsel Tom Bishop

we PAS,

POLICE

; more casea of van-
dalism over the weekend.

INFO

DR. BOB

construction, on Baxter St. in

HEALTH

Robert Murphy of 1731
Haitla found his camper
tipped over on Sunday with
damage estimated at several
hundred dollars.

Another house under

YOUNG

* It seems that the patient is
no more, The man or woman
who consults a physician has
been replaced by something
called a ‘health care con-
sumer’. This term, aside
from being an example of
inaccurate use of
language ~ ‘sickness care
consumer’ ig marginally
better — almost implies that
the ill person is guilty of
using up a resource.

This is one of the examples
of the depersonalization of
medicine mentioned by
Dr.Robert H Moser at a
recent meeting of the
American Medical Writers
Association. Dr. Moser is
the Executive Vice
President of the American
College of Physicians, and!
his talk exploredsome of the
difficulties that may be
encountered in trying to
provide compassionate,
personal, and effective
medical care. Many of his
observations apply io BC.

Part of the problem is the
- advent of prepaid medical
eare plans, particularly
government operated plans.
‘These agencies, because of
their size (it is not my intent
ot be critical of our medical
or hospital insurance
plansi(, TEND TO
‘BECOME IMPERSONAL.
The government, because
it pays the bills, becomes the

‘provider of health care.

Instead of seeing his or her
doctor, the patient ‘enlers
the health care del -ery
system’ and-naturally then
becomes a ‘health care

consumer’! ;
the How can this affect you as
@ patient or potential

patient? One thing that does
occur is that the provider of
health care will, correctly,
wish lo keep costs to a
minimum, This can be done
by making entry intu the
system more difficuit
provide fewer doctors, fewer
hospital beds, fewer x-ray
and laboratory services.

Consumption of the health
care dollar-can also be
decreased if peuple take
better care of themseives.
The Individual motivation
required is a major stum-
bling block.

Concert

‘cancelled

The guitar concert by
Diego Alcaraz which was
supposed to be held by the
Terrace Little Theatre wis
cancelled. In any case, we
made an error when we said
that Alcaraz would be
performing last night; he
was acutally to have per-
formed on Sunday night. We
appologize to any readers
who were inconvienced.

th: Snowbird subdivision, the afternoon,

woe damaged ov youths who G. Sumner of 28 Carswell
were plying wilh fire and St. reported that he found a
scaitered touls around, This' rock had been thrown
Incident occurred at 3 p.m. in through his front window

The Herald. fuesday, October 31, 1978, Page 3

Saturday afternoon.
Police ask that anyone who
gees any vandalism and

especially youths playing

around houses under con-

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Kitimat police also ask
motorists to remember that
Snow tires are required on all
vehicles as of Nov. 1,

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”- driver's
,- @aatomatically
’ Brian Tait and Mitchell

informed the court the
breathalyser test resulted in
a reading of 23, Frank’s
licence is

suspended,

Morven were fined fined $75
each after they were
charged with causing a
disturbance by fighting. The
two men were charged after

“” g fight took place at a New
_ Aiyansh community hall

dance on July 23.

Vineent Morrison was
fined $100 after he was,
charged with possession of
marijuana on Oct, 17.

Randy Scott was fined $150

Peter Kirby was fined $100
after he was charged with,
(possession of marijuana,
The charges were laid on
Sept. 29 after police made 2
routine check of a car Scott
was in. '

Frank Doell was fined #250,
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levei over .08. He was
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